women in love分析

1、Women in love written by -D.H.Lawrence 李秋虹李秋虹 1304010142刘刘 钰钰 1304010143D. H. Lawrence (1885.9-1930.3) D.H.Lawrence is one of the 20th centurys most prominent writers, novelist, playwright, poet and artist. His impact had been very deep. His novels and poetry explore the social ills created by the I

2、ndustrial Revolution and the role of sexuality in human relationships. The dialectic(辩证法) between men and women is a chief theme in Lawrences roduction18851901 An unremarkable beginning David Herbert Lawrence was born to in the mining town of Eastwood Nottinghamshire(诺丁汉郡（英国的一个郡） ) in 1885.

3、After several years Lawrence began work for a factory in Nottingham but eccentric(反常的) for his lack of work enthusiasm and his love of literature. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to lift her children out of the working class. His parents unhappy

4、 marriage and his mothers strong emotional claims on her son later became the basis for Lawrences Sons and Lovers (1913), one of the most important autobiographical novels of this century. Wife:Frieda, 6 years older, lived mostly abroad, in Italy, Australia, New Zealand, California, Mexico, and then

5、ce back to Europe, moving from place to place. Death:tuberculosis,southern France,44.Major worksThe White Peacock (1911), 白孔雀Sons and Lovers (1913), 儿子与情人The Rainbow (1915), 彩虹Women in Love (1920),恋爱中的女人The Plumed Serpent (1926), 羽蛇The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)，木马赢家Lady Chatterleys Lover (1928),查泰

6、莱夫人的情人 图 His artistic featuresLawrences artistic tendency is mainly realism, which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.With the working-class simplicity and directness, Lawrence can summon up all the physical attributes associated with the common daily objects.His artistic feat

7、uresIn presenting the psychological aspects of his characters, Lawrence makes use of poetic imagination and symbolism in his writing.Lawrence endows the traditional realism with a fresh psychological meaning.BackgroundWomen in Love was written in the years before and during World War I. Criticized f

8、or its exploration of human sexuality, the novel is filled with symbolism(象征) and poetry and is compulsively（强制的，性的） entertaining As with most of Lawrences works, Women in Love caused controversy over its sexual subject matter. One early reviewer said of it, “I do not claim to be a literary critic,

9、but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heapsfestering(溃烂), putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven.“ It also later stirred criticism for its portrayal of love, denounced as chauvinistic（沙文主义） and centered upon the phallus by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex.Theme Love Issues of Gen

10、der The Psychology of IndustrializationThe Relationship Of CharactersBirkinUrsulaGudrunGeraldTwo sistersGood friends lover lover loveThe charactersUrsula Brangwen(厄秀拉厄秀拉布朗温布朗温) She is a teacher. She is purity and has discernment（洞察力） . Ursula comes across as a dreamer of sorts, a romanticist, who be

11、lieves that marriage is probably the end of an experience. Ruper Birkin(卢伯特卢伯特伯金伯金) He is a teacher and stayed at the same school. He is a intelligent and indifferent man. But Birkin is always think about the contradictive life. Ursula and Birkin get married at last resisted many barriers and all ki

12、nds of difficulties.Gudrun and UrsulaGudrun Brangwen Gudrun is an artist and worked on sculpturing and the type of art. She is a beautiful and confident girl but her inner world is indifferent and proud. Gudrun insists one must discriminate between people who are exceptional and little fools, while

13、Ursula seems compelled(强迫) to agree with her, even when she was not in accord altogether.Gudrun and GeraldGerald Crich(杰拉德杰拉德克里克里奇) He is coal-mine-owning. He is a tough and routhless man. Gerald is always pursue profits without real emotion. He is not dare to face himself and lead to the last straw

14、 is Gudruns emotionless and frigid response to Geralds death. Plot summary Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midlands of England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and coal-mine heir Gerald Cri

15、ch. The four become friends. Ursula and Birkin become involved, and Gudrun eventually begins a love affair with Gerald. All four are deeply concerned with questions of society, politics, and the relationship between men and women. At a party at Geralds estate, Geralds sister Diana drowns. Gudrun bec

16、omes the teacher and mentor of his youngest sister. Soon Geralds coal-mine-owning father dies as well, after a long illness. After the funeral, Gerald goes to Gudruns house and spends the night with her, while her parents are asleep in another room. Birkin asks Ursula to marry him, and she agrees. G

17、erald and Gudruns relationship, however, becomes stormy. The four holiday in the Alps. Gudrun begins an intense friendship with Loerke, a physically puny but emotionally commanding artist from Dresden. Gerald, enraged by Loerke and most of all by Gudruns verbal abuse and rejection of his manhood, an

18、d driven by the internal violence of his own self, tries to strangle Gudrun. Before he has killed her, however, he realizes that this is not what he wants, and he leaves Gudrun and Loerke and climbs the mountain, eventually slipping into a snowy valley where he falls asleep and freezes to death. The

19、 impact on Birkin of Geralds death is profound; the novel ends a few weeks after Geralds death, with Birkin trying to explain to Ursula that he needs Gerald as he needs her for the perfect relationship with a woman, and Gerald for the perfect relationship with a man. The impact on Birkin of Geralds

20、death is profound; the novel ends a few weeks after Geralds death, with Birkin trying to explain to Ursula that he needs Gerald as he needs her for the perfect relationship with a woman, and Gerald for the perfect relationship with a man.Classic Sentences： She died - so it can show her existence. He

21、r death brings more really. 她死了倒好这样倒能显出她的存在来。死亡使她变得更为实在了。 Death is no big deal - it better. 死没什么了不起的没有比它更好的事情了。 I would rather go through it, Id prefer to go through the process of dying. 我宁愿去经历它我宁愿去经历死亡过程。 Death belongs to life, there have not belong to death. I yearn for love， like the regeneratio

22、n ,but also fragile like a baby just born. 有属于死亡的生活，还有不属于死亡的生活。我向往爱情，它如同睡眠，如同再生，又像是刚刚降生的脆弱的婴儿。 这些话出自恋爱中的女人（Woman in Love ，1920）的第十四章，它们像小说的题记，揭示了作品的基本思考和情调。my thoughts about the bookI cant figured out that Lawrence is pregnant with how complex the negative state of mind telling the story of the char

23、acters. Lawrence type style, in my eye, is so desperate forever. Even then he showed a little breath of faint hope, also always show particularly stingy. Although the novel topic is women in love But in a deeper sense, the men in this novel is much more important Geralds extremely accidental death l

24、ooks reasonable, no surprise. He died in the snow, just like sleeping. I believe that Lawrence hated Gerald, just like he hated the British, but instinct patriotic mood let he finally arranged Gerald died, serenely(安详地). Lawrence has been garrulously kept repeating: Gerald is so beautiful, so charmi

25、ng, he is so smart, so rich. In my view, it more likes an irony. Maybe Gerald looks like the British industrial civilization- -all outer show and inward emptiness. He had no soul, so he couldnt love. Doomed to his lack of spirit, he could not be happy. He seemed to be in love with Gudrun, he implied

26、 that he loved her, only because his inner emptiness to let he had the illusion. In fact he had no ability to love, to Birkin, as well as. In fact he was eager to love, love with Gudrun, love with Birkin. But the fact that he didnt have the ability to love laid the foundation of tragedy. His abundan

27、ce of material and his lack of spiritual made a great conflict. Birkin is the embodiment of Lawrence himself to a great extent. He kept talking, talking about life, talking about love, about everything. This only to highlight his helpless and inferiority in his deep heart. He was wise, he understood about society, about love, about Steven Gerald, about Ursula, about Gudrun, he know all. He was too thin, emaciated appearance ruthlessly suggested his incompetence. This was Lawrence, with the internal injuries as an intellectual